Is the Herald Sun a Melbourne paper? Is it generally reliable? The bit about TopGear America throws the credibility of the entire article into question.
Well maybe the Herald Sun knows more than suspected. Today there's a report on the US-car blog Motor Authority saying:
Top Gear USA To Live On At History Channel?
We were briefly excited last year then quickly had our hopes smashed when word of an American version of the U.K.'s hit car-related show Top Gear was released, then quickly canceled after filming the pilot. It had been slated for NBC, but the show may yet live on at The History Channel according to Adam Carolla's CarCast podcast.
Carolla was one of the three presenters of the original American version of the show, alongside race/drift/rally/everything driver Tanner Foust and TV construction guy Eric Stromer.
Tucked in amongst talk of Carolla's $150,000 Lamborghini Miura restoration, the host revealed that Top Gear USA will yet live on at The History Channel. In collaboration with BBC America, the show will see at least one season's worth of episodes.
Carolla himself seems somewhat in the dark on the details, so we'll have to wait for more to develop before we'll know on-air dates and showtimes, but consider our excitement fairly rejuvenated. Sure, it won't be the Clarkson-Hammond-May experience we've come to love, but
hopefully it won't be the disaster that is Top Gear Australia. It does look like Tanner Foust won't be joining the new Top Gear USA crew, however, which is a shame, as his presentation and skill behind the wheel would surely have been an asset to the show. Carolla's not even sure that he'll be doing the show.
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1042614_top-gear-usa-to-live-on-at-history-channel
Obviously the writer is not a fan of Top Gear Australia!
Update:
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-ne...-new-home-in-the-history-channel-ar85044.html
Top Gear USA Finds New Home On The History Channel
Let?s face it; the initial run of Top Gear USA on NBC didn?t exactly live up to the enormous expectations of its original UK counterpart; and that?s saying it lightly. Despite the moderate success ? or lack thereof ? Top Gear USA had with its small but loyal fan base, NBC decided to ax the show, proving yet again why they?re the fourth best network in the US right now. Don?t fret, Top Gear USA fans, the show just found a new home in the welcoming arms of The History Channel. Ok, so it?s not exactly the first channel we?d think of buying the rights to air Top Gear USA, but then again, we?ll take it any way we can get it.
According to reports, The History Channel has bought about 10 to 12 episodic rights for Top Gear USA and are also now in the hunt for new hosts for the show. According to one of the hosts of the shows previous incarnation, Adam Carolla, the new Top Gear USA show will also have the same host format, that being three people talking endlessly about cars for an entire hour or so. Carolla even went as far as saying that he?s up for one of the hosting gigs, which leads us to wonder if his former partners-in-crime, Tanner Foust and Eric Stromer, will also have an opportunity to rekindle their stints as hosts of the new Top Gear USA.
We?re all pinning our hopes on the possibility that The History Channel picks up some pretty good hosts for their version of Top Gear USA. No offense to the three aforementioned former hosts, but we feel that injecting some authoritative pistonheads in the mold of a Jeremy Clarkson to be the hosts of Top Gear USA will go a long way in giving credibility to the show.